Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-03-22 | Page 5 | Indians Gradually Becoming Extinct

INDIANS GRADUALLY ' BECOMING EXTINCT Washington. March 21. The red-man red-man Is gradually dieappearlng through the ravages of tuberculosis. To save tho Indian race from extinction ex-tinction by this disease amd yet lead it into the ways of the white man, is he task which officials or the buroau of Indian affairs have unde4-ta.Ken. When tho white man undertook to civilize the Indian tuberculosis was olmost unknown among the roc. Today To-day the Indians are dying off at the rato of approximately a thousand, per aunum Of all the tribes none seem to be so suspectlble as tho Sioux Jn-di.ins Jn-di.ins in South Dakota. Last year nearly one thousand members of tbU tribe was aXTllcted. They live in un-tanltary un-tanltary surroundings. Officials are determine to teach the Indian the value of sanitation, personal per-sonal cleanliness and other preventative preventa-tive measures.